Preferences Table

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
I've been having this debate in my mind and alternated my method on the past few projects I've worked on, and now I ask you, the MySQL community. What is the best way to have a preferences table? Here's what I've been doing: Table preferences basepath varchar(255) adminemail varchar(255) and

Re: Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
That seems to follow how I've been doing it as well. For example, consider this database set up: Table: news Fields: newsid int(10) userid int(10) dateposted datetime subject varchar(255) content text Table: users Fields: userid int(10) name varchar(60) and on and on. I'd love to hear from som

Field Naming Standards

2001-10-20 Thread Mike E
Howdy, I've been developing in MySQL for some time now, but as I go along I've noticed that my naming conventions have changed dramatically, and I was wondering if there is like a set of guidelines or something I could take a look at. A set of standards, if you will, for naming conventions of